BOB MCMANUS: Adams must reverse golden parachute for crooked Queens principal. “What should happen to a high school principal who can’t educate kids but cheats to pretend that he can? In New York City, he gets a happy handshake and a $1.8 million payday. That’s the latest from the compost heap masquerading as the city Department of Education — which took two years to boot former Maspeth High School principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir for egregiously inflating graduation rates. Then it turned around and awarded him a seven-year sinecure worth almost $260,000 annually, not counting step raises, a pension and lifetime health insurance.”

Plus: “With sharply declining enrollment — it’s down to 940,000 from 1.1 million three years ago — and a chronic truancy rate pushing 40% after eight years in the hands of Mayor Bill de Blasio and his hack pseudo-administrators, the system may well have entered terminal decline. Certainly its central focus isn’t on educating children — student performance standards, unserious in recent years, are evaporating — but rather on boosting pay, pensions and perks for the DOE’s 100,000-plus employees and its uncounted, parasitical, not-for-profit affiliates.”

Abolish it and replace it with vouchers.